Cigar-machine.



No. 768,777. PATENTED AUG. 30; 1904. B. H. SNAVELY & T. H. KELLER.

CIGAR MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 9, 1899 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

N0 MODEL.

a M N M N J No. 768,777. PATENTED AUG. 80, 1904.

B. H. SNAVELY & T. H. KELLER.

' CIGAR MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 9, 1899. N0 MODEL. 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

Patented August 30, 1904.

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PATENT BENJAMIN H. SNAVELY, OF BRUNNERVILLE, AND THOMAS H. KELLER,

OF LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA.

CIGAR-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 768,777, dated August30, 1904.

Application filed January 9, 1899. Serial No. 701,601. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be itknown that we, BENJAMIN H. SNAVELY,

residing at Brunnerville, and THOMAS H. Ken-- LER, residing at Lititz,in the county of Lancaster, State of Pennsylvania, citizens of theUnited States, have invented certain Improvements in Cigar-BIaohines, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in that class of devices designedfor spreading the wrappers of cigars as said wrappers are drawn into apocket to be rolled around the fillers; and the object of this inventionis to employ brushes for so spreading the wrappers.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of thevarious parts, as hereinafter fully described, and then pointed out inthe claims.

This invention is shown and described, but not claimed, in LettersPatent of the United States No. 617 ,366 for an improvement incigar-machines, issued to us on the 10th day of January, 1899.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which form apart of this specification, and in which* Figure l is an elevation ofthe front of a portion of a cigar-machine embodying our improvements,wherein the frame carrying the spreading-brushes is elevated to show thevarious parts in the positions occupied thereby, when a wrapper is to beput in place to be rolled around the'filler of a cigar; and Fig. 2, atop plan view showing the parts of the machine in the same position.Fig. 3 is a front perspective view wherein the frame carrying thespreading-brushes is lowered to show the various parts in the positionsoccupied thereby after a wrapper is secured in place to be rolled aroundthe filler of a cigar; Fig. 4, a rear elevation of the parts occupyingthe same positions as shown in Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 a vertical section onbroken line 5 5 of Fig. 4:.

Similar letters and numerals indicate like parts throughout the severalviews.

Referring to the details of the drawings, A indicates the stationaryplatform of a cigarmachine in which are two longitudinal slots (1/ anda.

In front of platform A are arranged a series of five rollers b, 6, 6 tand 6*, whereby is formed a longitudinal pocket in which the bunches. orfillers are placed to have the wrappers applied thereto, as is usual.

For the purposes of this specification the end of the machine towardwhich the tuck end of the cigar is formed will be termed the tuck endand that at which the head of the cigar is formed the head end.

On platform A is a reciprocating table D, that moves thereonlongitudinally of the rollers. This reciprocating table is actuatedthrough a vertically-d isposed shaft D, extending upv through slot (0 ofplatform A and through an opening in a horizontally-disposed lug 2 onthe tuck end of the reciprocating table, through which connection-shaftD imparts motion to said table.

On the upper end of shaft D is a bevelgear (1, located somewhat abovereciprocating table D.

On the end of reciprocating table D toward the tuck end of platformA arearms cZ, Figs.

3, 4:, and 5, whereinis journaled the hinge-' rod F of a frame carryinga fiat brush for pressing a cigar-wrapper to table D as said wrapper isdrawn between the rollers and beneath circular brushes for spreading thesame, which circular brushes are also carried by said frame. This framehas a horizontal bar F, disposed parallel with hinge-rod F,- and on saidhorizontal bar are lugs f, wherein hinge-rod F is secured.

On the side of horizontal bar F opposite lugs f are formed arms F F,Fig. 2. In bearings f on the free ends of arms F F is journaled anapproximately horizontal shaft F*, having on its front end outside ofthe adjacent arm F a circular brush F and on the opposite end outside ofarm F a gear-wheel f and at one side of and below shaft F is a shaft F,having on the end journaled in arm F a gear-wheel f that meshes withgearwheel From arm F shaft F is inclined toward the tuck end of themachine and carries on the extremity of the end journaledin arm F andoutside of and lapping brush F a circular brush F Where brushes F and Ff of a depending rod F to a tongue on the lower end whereof is secured ahorizontally-disposed brush F which when the parts are in an operativeposition. presses the wrapper upon reciprocating table D and maintainsthe same as it is drawn from said table in proper relation to the pocketformed by rollers b 7).

Rigidly secured on hinge-rod F is a lever, (see Figs. 1, 3, and L) onearm, F, whereof extends upward and toward shafts F and F and which hason its free end a weight F The other arm, F, of said lever extendsdownward through slot a of platform A and through it the brush-carryingframe is automatically thrown up by a mechanism not herein shown ordescribed to permit a wrapper to be placed on the reciprocating table Din position to be drawn between the rollers before described.

In operating, the ln'ush-carrying frame being raised so as to uncoverthe reciprocating table D and the whole length of the entrance to thepocket formed by saidrollers b b, as seen in F 1 and 2, the wrapper isput in place on said table, as shown by broken lines W, with the tuckend of the same covering the tuck end of the bunch or of the fillers insaid pocket and then said wrapper is secured in position by lowering thebrush-carrying frame, so that the brushes secure the wrapper in place.As the wrapper is drawn into said pocket brush F presses the same downon reciprocating table D and guides it in the proper direction as itpasses from said table, while brushes F" and F spread said wrapper. Thebrush-carrying frame is raised from or lowered into an operativeposition by hand by grasping weight F, or it may be raised or lowered inany other convenient way, automatically or otherwise. Reciprocatingtable D is actuated to move over stationary platform A and lengthwise ofthe roller-pocket through vertical shaft D, which travels back and forththrough slot a, revolving at the same time in such manner as to impartrotary motion to shafts F and I when the ln'ush-carrying frame is inoperative position, the lever F F at the same time traveling back andforth through slot (4. At the head end thereof slot a curves somewhatfrom slot a and toward the roller-pocket. This tends to draw lever F Fslightly behind shaft 1) and to turn table D and draw the front thereofsomewhat toward said pocket, changing the direction of the feed of thewrapper to the bunch or filler beingrolled therein in said pock t, thusaiding in giving thedesired taper to the head of the cigar. To permitthis slight change in the relative positions of shaft D and the lever FF, said shaft I) has sufiicient play in slot a to allow it to tiltslightly.

\Ve do not confine ourselves to the particular construction of theactuating mechanism, nor to that of the stationary platform andreciprocating table herein shown and described, as they do not form anypart of this invention, and it is obvious that many changes may be madetherein without departing from the principle and scope of our invention.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination, a table, mechanism for rolling a wrapper about afiller, reversely-revoluble disk-like brushes disposed in differentplanes approximately parallel with said rolling mechanism, and means forrevolving said brushes, for the purpose specified.

2. In combination, a table, mechanism for rolling a wrapper about afiller, reversely-revoluble dish-like brushes having their axesapproximately in the same. horizontal plane, the disk-like brushes beingapproximately parallel with said. rolling mechanism, and means forrevolving said brushes, for the purpose specified.

3. In combination, reversely-revoluble circular brushes having theirperipheries lapping the one over the other, a table, and means forrevolving said brushes, for the purpose specified.

4. In combination, reversely-revoluble circular brushes disposed indifferent planes and having their peripheries lapping the one over theother, a table, and means for revolving said brushes, for the purposespecified.

5. In combination, reversely-revoluble circular brushes having theirperipheries lapping the one over the other, a plate interposed betweenthe lapping portions of the brushes, a table, and means for revolvingsaid brushes, for the purpose specified.

6. In combination, reversely revoluble brushes disposed in differentplanes and having their peripheries lapping the one over the other, aplate interposed between the lapping portions of the brushes, a table,and means for revolving said brushes, for the purpose specified.

7. The combination, in a cigar-machine, of a table, mechanism forrolling a wrapper about a filler, means for pressing a wrapper to thetable as the same is drawn therefrom to be rolled around the filler,reversely-revoluble circular brushes disposed in different planesbetween the table and the rollingmechanism and longitudinally of said.mechanism other, and means for revolving said brushes,

for the purpose specified.

9. The comblnation, 1n a cigar-machine, of

a table, mechanism for rolling a Wrapper I5 about a filler, reverselyrevoluble circular brushes disposed in different planes between thetable and the rolling mechanism and having their peripheries lapping theone over the other, a plate interposed between the lapping 2 portions ofthe brushes, and means for revolving said brushes, for the purposespecified.

BENJAMIN H. SNAVELY. THOMAS H. KELLER. Witnesses:

A. B. REIDENBACH, J. B. SNAVELY.

